Data shows orforglipron could in future avoid need to take other long-term medications for diseases associated with obesity

A daily pill could help people keep weight off and stop them needing other long-term medications, scientists behind landmark new trial data have suggested.

The researchers said orforglipron could help prevent more than 200 diseases associated with obesity and could be...

Sam Altman said Elon Musk tried many times for total control of OpenAI, which he’s now suing.

My father, Robert Smith, who has died aged 92, was a pharmacologist and professor at St Mary’s medical school in London (now part of Imperial College) whose work helped shape thinking on people’s differing responses to drugs – genetically, biochemically and clinically.

Bob became well known in particular for his role in the discovery of “debrisoquine polymorphism”. An enthusiastic...

Houston, Texas  – Over five hundred energy industry professionals gather in June to gain insight and examine up-to-the-minute issues facing the U.S. Northeast natural gas and LNG market region. The 31st Annual LDC Gas Forum Energy Northeasttakes place June 8 – 10, 2026 in Boston, MA. This is the industry’s premier gathering for natural gas […]

All the protocols that health experts like me look for have been followed. But outbreaks on cruise ships are notoriously hard to control

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Hantavirus: the disease you wish you’d never heard of, as visions of the Covid pandemic flash through your head. I’ve seen lots of breathless coverage and some bizarre takes...

Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice?

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I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love about a dim room, candles and nary an electronic device in sight?

But a wellness trend that has emerged in recent years makes soaking in tepid water seem quaint: increasingly, people are...

Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry. A genome is the full DNA code of about three billion (a thousand million) bases, including all the chromosomes. Each person has two genomes: one from their mother and the other from their father. Well resourced environments […]

An independent panel chaired by Wits AI researcher Benjamin Rosman will help rebuild the withdrawn draft AI policy.

Herotel now has 284 850 connected fibre-to-the-home connections, mostly in smaller towns and townships.

Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon delivered strong service revenue growth for MTN, lifting group Ebitda to R27.6-billion.

Naspers’s Prosus is slashing the Brazilian business’s profit forecast to defend it from well-funded competitive rivals.

The company behind Canvas says it has “reached an agreement” with the hackers who disrupted thousands of colleges and universities.

Streaming giant Netflix is keen to remind regulators and economies of its weight as growth pressures mount.

Vodacom Group Shameel Joosub has warned of severe upward pressure on device prices as the RAM crisis intensifies.